The Image of the World in the Anthropocene

Paolo Missiroli

doi:10.6092/issn.2612-0496/14658

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Paolo Missiroli University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Paolo Missiroli (1992) studied at the University of Bologna, where he obtained a Master’s Degree in Philosophical Sciences and, subsequently, he obtained a PhD at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and at the Université Paris X in Nanterre. He is a “cultore della materia” at the Department of Philosophy and Communication in Bologna and a contract professor in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He works on contemporary French philosophy, with a focus on the work of Foucault and Merleau-Ponty. His research interests revolve around the concept of the Anthropocene. He is a member of the editorial board of the “Almanacco di Filosofia e Politica”.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2612-0496/14658

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Anthropocene, Object Oriented Ontology, Posthuman, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Aesthetics

Abstract

The aim of this essay is to show the sense and the limits of some of the contemporary critiques of the idea of the world. It will be structured as follows: in a first paragraph, we will show the conceptual structure of these critiques as they take shape in Object Oriented Ontology (OOO), especially in Timothy Morton's work, Hyperobjects. In a second, we will focus on the two main difficulties that such critical work encounters. In a third, finally, we will show the possibilities, aesthetic and political, of a revisited concept of world.

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